The LORD bless you and keep you! The LORD let his face shine upon you and be gracious to you! The LORD look upon you kindly and give you peace!
We can sense that what we are hearing makes sense. That feeling is coming from the Spirit Who is assuring us at the deepest core of our being that we have found the truth.
For instance, I believe in the "good news", but I've never really spent the time to contemplate all the meaning that phrase contains. Maybe I've become a little too familiar with it, have said it, and have thought about it too superficially.
It seems that much of what God reveals is at once simple and easily understood; at least on the surface. Because of the very simplicity of the words we almost instantly, at least intellectually, "get it." I suppose that's what God intended—that we would be able to comprehend Him and His goodness.
There is a quote that I’ve read (I don’t know the author) that sums up how we should approach the ‘good news’. “The possession of facts is knowledge. The use of them is wisdom.”
I think what we fail to appreciate, and sometimes miss altogether, is that we must go beyond knowing, to loving! We must exercise not just our intellect that resides in our mind, but also our "will" that resides in our heart. We must not only know; we must respond to what we have seen and what we have heard. We must be grateful, loving, humble, and obedient.
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